25 years ago at this time, Viagra pills, like Matías Colsada's cheerful girls, landed in Spanish pharmacies amidst popular rejoicing, who took the scientific advance at face value. Viagra seemed like a new variant of cubata...
If I remember the date it is not, as the reader may have suspected, because of something intimate. I went to write a report about the Viagra factory in Europe, then located in Amboise, a French town that was stimulating for its landscape and historical heritage: Leonardo Da Vinci died there, Mick Jagger had a mansion and there stood out a relevant castle where Francis I and Charles V met. They were stiff (they were very argumentative).
At that time, Viagra was made to combat male impotence, hence the popular revelry. In another sign of the great advances of humanity, today it is made to combat erectile dysfunction, a term that gives solemnity to this ailment, which already affects 95.9% of couples in the northern hemisphere with more than 75 years of relationship.
Is this blue pill taboo? I maintain that yes. The best-prepared generation of sexagenarians in history – mine, modesty aside – knows how to do many things – from mortifying a line judge to multiplying, subtracting, adding and dividing – but hesitates at the crossroads of whether or not to try Viagra .
Who else is curious? Intellectual concerns, wow. Try just to try, to have judgment and be able to advise better, if necessary. Only in some cases is it related to external pressures, typical of the marital sphere.
–Amancio, either you take it in front of me or I'll dissolve it in orange juice...
Viagra is a male issue, hence it lacks social or discursive interest, unless someone includes it among the challenges of new masculinity (something tells me that we will soon see a ministry of New Masculinities). This being the case, it is understandable that Viagra and its generics are not at the expense of the State: let's see who is the handsome one who forms a platform and goes out to demonstrate!
Spain is not for subsidies.
